Swan and Pyramids
The Swan and Pyramids (1960)
Credit: Friern Barnet & District Local History Society
The Swan & Pyramids was situated at 975 High Road.

The pub was known as the "Windmill and Fighting Cocks" by 1751, and as "Swan" (or "Swan with Two Necks") by 1765.

William Chaplin - a coach-master - was noted as having more than 82 stables at the Swan and Pyramids in Whetstone in 1840. At the height of his prosperity Chaplin had 2,000 horses and 27 mail-coaches leaving London every night, many of which used the Great North Road but most of which were superseded by the railways.

The Swan and Pyramids was a Taylor-Walker pub but demolished and replaced with a (rather horrible) modern version, which continued to house the pub. The rebuilding was a mixed-use development.

In the twenty first century it was known as the Safari Club bar.


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